British kitchen sink owes it's style from Italian neo realism and French school ..Goddard, Traffut. Even A Hard Day's Night ..Ringo strolling about kicking a can along dirty canals, London black n white grime.

I’ve been working through the Woodfall box set this week, and thoroughly enjoying it. Some of these films I’ve not seen in many years.

A number of locations used in A Taste of Honey are close to where I live. The area has changed a great deal, but the main landmarks are still recognisable.

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Are you a Smiths fan?

There are so many lines in that film that Morrissey 'borrowed':

The most famous "I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice" from Reel Around The Fountain

The opening scene has the two girls chatting, one asks 'you going out tonight?' and she replies, 'I would but I havent got anything to wear' - This Charming Man

Jo to the sailor boy 'I'll probably never see you again' - Hand in Glove

Plus all these:

"That river, it's the colour of lead.";
"I'm not sorry and I'm not glad";
"Oh well, the dream's gone, but the baby's real enough";
"It's a long time, six months";
"You can't just wrap it up in a bundle of newspaper. And dump it on a doorstep.";
"I don't owe you a thing";
"As merry as the day is long";
"Sing me to sleep";
"You want taking in hand";
"It's your life, ruin it your own way.".

My 'in' with British Kitchen Sink type films was in the early 80's being a Smiths fan and checking out all these films Morrissey would name-check, like A Taste Of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning etc.

It's great when a band or musician (like Morrissey or Mark E. Smith) is so intelligent and well read that they turn you on to all this stuff you may not have ever come across.

Yes, I’m a Smiths/Moz fan, and I’m aware of most of those lyrical references. I became aware of the film and the band around the same time, in the 1980s, but I couldn’t tell you which came first. Being Mancunian, this stuff is engrained in the local consciousness.

You’re welcome. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. It’s a brilliant set.

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Still got to work myself through them. First BD disk watched was "The KnAck..and how to get it" debut of Charlotte Rampling, Jane Birkin ..Mainly viewed for film title / music ..locations. Prior to opening the box and dipping in. I seen a couple of other sixties films Expresso Bongo & Beat Girl.

The Knack left a nasty taste in my mouth. The tone shifts from anachronistic, yet harmless, sexism to something altogether more sinister. The stage-y script was no doubt well-intentioned, but it’s a serious misstep, IMO.

I have a lot of dual-format releases. Never play the DVDs, but they take up no extra room on the shelf, so they don’t bother me greatly.

The Knack left a nasty taste in my mouth. The tone shifts from anachronistic, yet harmless, sexism to something altogether more sinister. The stage-y script was no doubt well-intentioned, but it’s a serious misstep, IMO.

I have a lot of dual-format releases. Never play the DVDs, but they take up no extra room on the shelf, so they don’t bother me greatly.

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The plot must have been amusing in 1965, swinging London and wot not.
Dated of course, and values now. Again chiefly viewed for shops locations, Dolly birds.

The most famous "I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice" from Reel Around The Fountain

The opening scene has the two girls chatting, one asks 'you going out tonight?' and she replies, 'I would but I havent got anything to wear' - This Charming Man

Jo to the sailor boy 'I'll probably never see you again' - Hand in Glove

Plus all these:

"That river, it's the colour of lead.";
"I'm not sorry and I'm not glad";
"Oh well, the dream's gone, but the baby's real enough";
"It's a long time, six months";
"You can't just wrap it up in a bundle of newspaper. And dump it on a doorstep.";
"I don't owe you a thing";
"As merry as the day is long";
"Sing me to sleep";
"You want taking in hand";
"It's your life, ruin it your own way.".

My 'in' with British Kitchen Sink type films was in the early 80's being a Smiths fan and checking out all these films Morrissey would name-check, like A Taste Of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning etc.

It's great when a band or musician (like Morrissey or Mark E. Smith) is so intelligent and well read that they turn you on to all this stuff you may not have ever come across.

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Arguably Morrissey's most famous line 'jumped up pantry boy who does't know his place' was written, not by Shelagh Delaney, but by Anthony Shaffer and delivered by Laurence Olivier in the film Sleuth (1972):

This is St. Mary’s Church, Stockport. I was walking past this morning and decided to snap a quick photo. There is a scene in A Taste of Honey between Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin that was shot in the graveyard, which you can see through the arched entrance to the left of the church tower. It hasn’t changed much.

This is St. Mary’s Church, Stockport. I was walking past this morning and decided to snap a quick photo. There is a scene in A Taste of Honey between Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin that was shot in the graveyard, which you can see through the arched entrance to the left of the church tower. It hasn’t changed much.

The most famous "I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice" from Reel Around The Fountain

The opening scene has the two girls chatting, one asks 'you going out tonight?' and she replies, 'I would but I havent got anything to wear' - This Charming Man

Jo to the sailor boy 'I'll probably never see you again' - Hand in Glove

Plus all these:

"That river, it's the colour of lead.";
"I'm not sorry and I'm not glad";
"Oh well, the dream's gone, but the baby's real enough";
"It's a long time, six months";
"You can't just wrap it up in a bundle of newspaper. And dump it on a doorstep.";
"I don't owe you a thing";
"As merry as the day is long";
"Sing me to sleep";
"You want taking in hand";
"It's your life, ruin it your own way.".

My 'in' with British Kitchen Sink type films was in the early 80's being a Smiths fan and checking out all these films Morrissey would name-check, like A Taste Of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning etc.

It's great when a band or musician (like Morrissey or Mark E. Smith) is so intelligent and well read that they turn you on to all this stuff you may not have ever come across.